At the Beckland Nest Mental Sanatorium, the clock was already approaching eight o'clock. Thanks to Victoria's geographical location, the sky was still very bright at this time.
"How is the situation?" Ms. Q asked casually, standing in front of the transparent high-strength single-sided glass, looking at the D-class personnel wearing a strange helmet in the ward.
"It hasn't started yet. According to the normal process, the death mechanism will usually be triggered two to three hours after nightfall." Mr. R sat on an uncomfortable-looking stool and flipped through the documents in his hand.
Two days and one night have passed since it was confirmed that the "Covenant Card" was not a copycat case. During this period, MI9 reorganized all subsequent cases that were judged to be copycat cases since the emergence of Libra.
Although there are many cases where the murderer has not been found to this day, more criminals have been arrested.
All those arrested had stolen property from the case, and many of them were even exposed when they were discovered while selling the stolen goods.
In order to figure out the difference between these people and the imitators who died after receiving the covenant cards, Mr. R and Ms. Q, including their team members, have been intensively playing various "Libra Covenant" games for the past two days. "The second work of the book, trying to find out the new execution rules of this weird ghost.
However, with the end of the Olympic Games, the strange stories of Libra have also spread to all parts of the world through various media and tourists. The relevant secondary creations will include various languages and develop local characteristics based on different cultures and habits of various places. of secondary creations, not counting those discussions held in forums, post bars, and group chats.
Although most of them will disappear completely when the storm passes, at least at this time, it is too difficult to find useful information from this massive information exchange.
It’s not like no one has made relatively reasonable guesses, but in the final analysis, they are just guesses.
The reason why MI9 is so interested in "Libra" is not just for profit or political achievements, nor is it because there are no other goals to pursue. The real reason lies in its influence.
Although "Libra" seems to be a pretty good ghost for the people on the surface, it is a complete cancer for any country. Even if you don't count the various interests and subsequent imitators, it Its very existence will reduce a country's credibility.
Not to mention, there is the example of Dongguo before us.
Basically, all the people who can serve as middle and high-level people in the Kaidan corresponding organization have been to Dongguo, not to learn any advanced concepts, but just to let them understand how powerless human beings will be when these things get out of control.
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As time passed, the sky finally turned completely dark. Ms. Q stopped what she was doing, and Mr. R also stopped taking the documents from his assistant.
Not only them, but at this moment, many middle-level personnel who have nothing to do with "Libra" are also beginning to appear here one after another. Some even bring their favorite juniors with them, waiting for the death of this D-class personnel.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
A screen was turned on, and what appeared on it was a picture that was exactly the same as that in the ward. However, this was not a live video, but data transmitted through the brains of D-class personnel in the ward.
Numbered C-62, it looks like a mechanical helmet with a USB port.
It is not a mind reader or a lie detector. It can only convert the wearer's audio and video into video files. Generally speaking, it can make the wearer become a high-resolution human camera or audio recorder.
It sounds like something that can be replaced by an ordinary camera, but compared to purely technological creations, this magical item naturally has its own magic -
What it captures is not the "objectively existing" images and sounds, but the images and sounds "perceived" by the wearer. In other words, it can record the wearer's "hallucinations" and "dreams."
"Everything is normal now." Professional technicians are constantly comparing the pictures taken by conventional cameras with the pictures output by magical items. Whether it is a subtle sound or some flaws in the picture, they will be found.
This seemingly futile work lasted for a full hour, and some of the young agents who were brought in even began to show impatient looks. But at this moment, a strange bell sounded from the phone connected to C-62. came from the computer speakers, and the D-class personnel sitting on the hospital bed shivered violently.
"coming!"
Everyone outside the ward cheered up, nervously staring at the two monitors side by side, and looking into the ward from time to time.
The ward was empty, but the D-class personnel made a horrified sound, and on the computer monitor linked to the magical item, a man wearing a skull mask suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
"Golden lapel pin, European-style suit..." Mr. R kept recording the clothing features of the skull masked man in his notes, but he was already comparing them with the relevant details in the second creation and witness reports.
Relevant staff are recording the footage. Although the video recorded by C-62 can be saved, considering that the second set of Libra seems to have content such as "erasing traces of electronic device monitoring", they still prefer to use paper. Pen and eyes to remember.
"Tell you three good things..."
An extremely oppressive voice came from the speaker, but the ward was still empty. The body of the D-class personnel who was originally slumped beside the bed floated unscientifically out of thin air, and faint marks began to appear on his neck.
Outside the ward, pairs of eyes were staring at everything in front of them, and even the sound of breathing was suppressed to the lowest level. Only the rustling of the pen tip rubbing against the paper accompanies this death.
"...You have been put on the execution list."
As the last sentence fell, the last voice came out from the picture that had turned pitch black——
"Crack!"
That was the sound of the neck bones being broken.
Seeing that the screen representing the output port of the magical item turned into snowflakes, the administrator who had a lot of experience in using it understood that this already represented the complete death of the wearer. Although the D-class personnel was still floating in the air at this time, they were already There is no way of knowing whether the "Oath Keeper" left any other messages after that.
After all, the side effects of B-44 affect the user, rather than affecting the entire environment. Although the user will continue to change after becoming a corpse, they have no means to observe the significance of this change.
The corpse finally fell, and pieces of blood emerged out of thin air, outlining each hideous and messy word. The blood words that the D-class personnel saw through B-44 a few days ago have now become reality.
A mid-level agent left the ward "satisfied" with his subordinates who were either scared or excited, while the administrator stood in front of the computer, waiting for the technician to export the video and take away the C-62.
At this time, Mr. R and Ms. Q were still standing at the door of the ward, quietly chewing on the words left by the "Oath Keeper".
An idea seems to be slowly taking shape.
ps1: As for adding additional settings to the protagonist to create weaknesses, this is feasible, but in fact the protagonist does not have to abide by it. This is a major advantage of Kaiden Kaitan.
For example, the protagonist does not have to abide by the ten covenants, but when he does not abide by them, he will not be able to obtain the power brought by the corresponding covenants.
And adding settings is not that easy. If you set up OOC, others will not recognize it. If the second set is too strong, it will provide new power to Kaitan. So this is generally not done.
ps2: Regarding the execution rules, seven of the ten covenants exist as oaths to obtain protection. Violating them will at most invalidate the protection and will not lead to execution. Only three will trigger the execution rules - morality, justice and balance.
(Balance refers to the balance between morality and law, that is, what is morally deserving of punishment or death, and the law does not punish or lightly punishes, then punishing is to maintain this balance)
In other words, under normal circumstances, when you act under the name of Libra, it doesn’t matter whether you use a gun or a mine, it doesn’t matter whether you accept a commission, or even whether you have an accomplice, whether you looted property, whether your behavior was fair, and whether you were injured. and innocence are not important.
As long as your starting point is based on your own morality and justice (it's okay if you kill someone for justice and take the money afterwards), and your target is an outlaw (that is, the law does not or cannot give you the punishment you deserve), then there is no problem. .
But on the other hand, if you just use justice and morality as a guise and want to make money from the beginning, or take action against people who have been given appropriate punishment by the law, the Oath Keepers punishment mechanism will be triggered.
(End of chapter)
